Educational goals
The aim of the Lower-Secondary School two-year master’s program is to prepare highly-qualified, university-educated experts for teaching at lower-secondary school level. Teaching in the program is always organized in the form of choosing a specialization (i.e. a combination of two academic majors from the following list: English, Czech Language and Literature, History, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, German, Civics, Natural History, Special Education, Spanish, Physical Education and Geography, while its specific curriculum is based on the framework of requirements set by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports for the preparation of teachers: the basics of teaching, first and second academic major, teaching methodology, teaching practice and a master’s thesis.
Profile of the graduate
Graduates of the Lower-Secondary School Education master’s program are trained professionals in their chosen specialization (i.e. a combination of two majors) and are educated in psychology and pedagogy to the extent necessary for the profession. Thus, graduates of the program are well-versed in issues of education and teaching, can work with older pupils of school-age, and understand and reflect on the specificities of their age- and gender-specific qualities, as well as their individual characteristics. They are thus able to choose and transform teaching materials, as well as plan, execute and assess the teaching process in accordance with those specificities and characteristics. The program’s graduates are qualified to teach at lower-secondary school level in junior high schools and the lower years of eight-year high schools. At the time of their entry to the profession, they have solid foundations for further professional growth and training in the framework of the carreer system and courses of further education, as well as for postgraduate education.
Information
- Study programme
- Teacher Training for Lower Secondary Schools (N0114A300076)
- Faculty of
- FP
- Type of study
- Postgraduate Master
- Form of study
- Part-time
- Length of study
- 2
- Awarded degree
- Mgr.
- Language
- Czech
- Education area
- Educational Studies
Branches
- Anglický jazyk
- Cílem studia oboru je připravit teoreticky a didakticky vybaveného učitele anglického jazyka 2. stupně ZŠ, který kompetentně vykonává činnosti učitele, pružně reaguje na potřeby společnosti formulované ve vzdělávací politice státu a sám se dál vzdělává. Studium proto vede k získání prohlubujících oborových kompetencí v jazykovědě a literatuře, především však v oborové didaktice.
- Czech language and literature
- Cílem studia v rámci oboru je vychovat učitele českého jazyka, komunikační výchovy a literární výchovy pro základní školství. Vedle všeobecně vzdělávacích a pedagogických vědomostí se studentovi dostane vzdělání v didaktice jazyka a komunikační výchovy a v didaktice výchovy literární.
- History
- Studijní obor je zaměřen na prohloubení teoretického poznání moderních českých/česko-slovenských dějin v mezinárodním kontextu od konce 18. století po dějiny soudobé. Toto směřování vyplývá z didaktického hlediska z významu poznání především moderních dějin pro pochopení současného světa. Důraz je přitom kladen na vyšší zastoupení oborově didaktických předmětů.
- Fyzika
- Cílem oboru je připravit učitele fyziky pro výuku na 2. stupni základní školy. V oborové složce studia fyziky se klade důraz na prohloubení teoretického poznání v klasické i moderní fyzice s důrazem na praktické i mezioborové aplikace. Aplikační složka studijního programu jak v rámci oborů, tak i v pedagogicko-psychologické přípravě se realizuje především v rámci bloku povinně volitelných předmětů.
- Chemie
- V rámci studia oboru jde především o prohloubení poznatků oborově didaktických předmětů, tedy Didaktiky chemie, Techniky a didaktiky školních pokusů a Motivačních pokusů. Důraz je kladen na propojení didaktických znalostí mezipředmětových vztahů mezi chemií, fyzikou, geografií, matematikou a přírodopisem, což je realizováno v předmětu Mezipředmětové vztahy v přírodních vědách.
- Informatika
- V rámci studia oboru jde o prohloubení kompetencí vybraných informatických předmětů z oblasti grafiky, bezpečnosti a programování, přičemž důraz je kladen na vyšší zastoupení oborově didaktických předmětů, a to především na didaktiku právě programování.
- Matematika
- V rámci studia oboru jde o prohloubení teoretického poznání základních oborových předmětů (zejména matematické analýzy, algebry a geometrie), a jejich vzájemných souvislostí. Důraz je kladen na vyšší zastoupení oborově didaktických předmětů. Jedná se především o oborovou Didaktiku matematiky pro 2. stupeň ZŠ a předměty zaměřené na elementární matematiku.
- Německý jazyk
- Cílem studia oboru je připravit teoreticky a didakticky vybaveného učitele německého jazyka 2. stupně ZŠ, který kompetentně vykonává činnosti učitele, pružně reaguje na potřeby společnosti formulované ve vzdělávací politice státu a sám se dál vzdělává. Studium proto vede k získání prohlubujících oborových kompetencí v jazykovědě a literatuře, především však v oborové didaktice.
- Občanská výchova
- V oborové složce se klade důraz na klíčové problémy a otázky, s nimiž se potýká současná moderní společnost, jde zejména o problémy související s fenomény globalizace, vztahu náboženství a moderní společnosti, ekologickou problematiku a v neposlední řadě rovněž otázky související s rolí ekonomiky v moderní globalizující se společnosti a proměny právního řádu.
- Přírodopis
- V rámci studia oboru jde především o prohloubení poznatků oborově didaktických předmětů, tedy Didaktika přírodopisu na ZŠ, Didaktika přírodopisu v terénu a Motivační biologické pokusy. Důraz je kladen na propojení didaktických znalostí mezipředmětových vztahů mezi chemií, fyzikou, geografií, matematikou a přírodopisem, což je realizováno v předmětu Mezipředmětové vztahy v přírodních vědách.
- Španělský jazyk
- Cílem studia oboru je připravit teoreticky a didakticky vybaveného učitele španělského jazyka 2. stupně ZŠ, který kompetentně vykonává činnosti učitele, pružně reaguje na potřeby společnosti formulované ve vzdělávací politice státu a sám se dál vzdělává. Studium proto vede k získání prohlubujících oborových kompetencí v jazykovědě a literatuře, především však v oborové didaktice.
- Společný základ
- The aims of studies in all of the listed majors are to broaden the academic part of teacher training, to integrate it both in terms of its content and in terms of its order with topics of the module on psychology and pedagogy, and to apply this theoretical knowledge in a practical manner to the everyday practice of school work. This is in order to prepare teachers who are well-equipped from both a theoretical and a methodological point of view, and who can find their bearings in the complexities and transformations of contemporary school education. There is an emphasis in all majors of this program that students acquire a sense of responsibility for their self-development. In addition they can reflect upon their practical experience and they can cultivate an integrative approach.
- Tělesná výchova
- V rámci studia oboru jde o prohloubení teoretického poznání základních kinantropologických předmětů, přičemž důraz je kladen na vyšší zastoupení oborově didaktických předmětů. V tělesné výchově se jedná především o oborovou didaktiku tělesné výchovy a speciální didaktiku gymnastiky, plavání, atletiky a sportovních her.
- Zeměpis
Courses of Anglický jazyk branch
1. semester
- Lexicology (compulsory)
- Methodology of the English Language 1 (compulsory)
- Sociolinguistics (compulsory)
2. semester
- Language Skills (compulsory)
- Literature I: Anglophone Literature (compulsory)
- Methodology of the English Language 2 (compulsory)
3. semester
- Alternative Approaches to TEFL (compulsory)
- Methodology of the English Language 3 (compulsory)
- Textual Analysis (compulsory)
4. semester
- Literature 2: Children’s Literature (compulsory)
- Methodology of the English Language 4 (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Basic Elements of Applied Research (compulsory optional)
- Development of the English Language (compulsory optional)
- Expert discourse on English language (compulsory)
- Gender and Literature (compulsory optional)
- Language contact (compulsory optional)
- Linguistic Seminar (compulsory optional)
- Literary Seminar (compulsory optional)
- Teaching Aids (compulsory optional)
- Teaching Practice Seminar 1 (compulsory optional)
- Teaching Practice Seminar 2 (compulsory optional)
- Using Literature in ELT Classroom (compulsory optional)
Courses of Czech language and literature branch
1. semester
- Didactics of Language Teaching 1 (compulsory)
- Methodology of Literature (compulsory)
- Public speaking and elocution exercise (compulsory)
2. semester
- Didactics of Language Teaching 1 (compulsory)
- Essentials of text linguistics (compulsory)
- Methodology of Literature (compulsory)
3. semester
- Critical discourse analysis – an introdu (compulsory)
- Didactics of Language Teaching 1 (compulsory)
- Literature and cinematography (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Analysis of Textbooks (compulsory optional)
- Cognitive Linguistic (compulsory optional)
- Contemporary Czech literature (compulsory optional)
- Creative writing (compulsory optional)
- Czech as a foreign language I (compulsory optional)
- Czech in viewpoint of contrastive ling. (compulsory optional)
- Expert discourse on Czech language (compulsory)
- Onomastics (compulsory optional)
- Selected chapters (youth lit.) (compulsory optional)
- Sociocultural Competence in CFL (compulsory optional)
- Theory of literature for youth (compulsory optional)
- Theory of media communication (compulsory optional)
- World literature II (compulsory optional)
Courses of History branch
1. semester
- History Didactics I (compulsory)
- Modern Czech History I (1780-1848) (compulsory)
2. semester
- History Didactics II (compulsory)
- Modern Czech History II (1848-1918) (compulsory)
3. semester
- Czechoslovak history I (1918-1945) (compulsory)
4. semester
- Czechoslovak history II (1945-1989) (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Culture and art in modern times I – arch (compulsory optional)
- Culture and art in modern timesII f.art (compulsory optional)
- Czechoslovakian and Czech after 1989 (compulsory optional)
- Expert discourse on history (compulsory)
- Historical excursion (compulsory optional)
- Historical seminar I. (compulsory optional)
- Historical seminar II. (compulsory optional)
- Knowledge and education in modern times (compulsory optional)
- Nations and nationalism (compulsory optional)
- Political ideologies (compulsory optional)
- Problems of the History Didactics I (compulsory optional)
- Problems of the History Didactics II (compulsory optional)
- Problems of the History Didactics III (compulsory optional)
- Problems of the History Didactics IV (compulsory optional)
- Selected Aspects of Early History I (compulsory optional)
- Selected Aspects of Modern History I (compulsory optional)
- Selected Aspects of Modern History II (compulsory optional)
- Selected Aspects of Modern History III (compulsory optional)
- Selected Aspects of Modern History IV (compulsory optional)
- Selected Aspects of Modern History VI (compulsory optional)
- Selected Aspects of Older History II (compulsory optional)
Courses of Fyzika branch
1. semester
- Physics in nature (compulsory)
- Quantum Mechanics (compulsory)
- Relativity Theory (compulsory)
2. semester
- Practise of School Experiments I (compulsory)
3. semester
- Physics of Condensed Matter (compulsory)
- Practise of School Experiments II (compulsory)
4. semester
- Astronomy (compulsory)
- Didactic Seminar (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Astrophysics (compulsory optional)
- Computers in teaching physics (compulsory optional)
- Physics education outside school (compulsory optional)
- Project teaching in physics (compulsory optional)
- Relations among natural sciences (compulsory optional)
Courses of Chemie branch
1. semester
- Didactics of chemistry (compulsory)
- Enviromental Chemistry (compulsory)
2. semester
- Chemical informatics (compulsory)
- Motivation experiments (compulsory optional)
- Nutritional chemistry (compulsory optional)
- Techniques and didactics of experiments (compulsory)
3. semester
- Computers in Teaching Chemistry (compulsory)
- Instrumental analysis (compulsory)
4. semester
- General biology (compulsory optional)
- Chemical technology (compulsory)
- Relations among natural sciences (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Expert discourse on chemistry (compulsory)
Courses of Informatika branch
Courses without specified study plan
- Computer Graphic (compulsory)
- Creating a dynamic website (compulsory)
- Developing Educational Applications (compulsory)
- Didactics of Programming (compulsory)
- E-learning (compulsory)
- Expert Discourse on Informatics (compulsory)
- Information Security (compulsory)
- Modern Programming Methods (compulsory)
- Operating System Unix (compulsory)
- Robotic Construction Kits (compulsory)
Courses of Matematika branch
1. semester
- Didactics of math. for elementary school (compulsory)
- Elementary mathematics 1 (compulsory)
2. semester
- Elementary Mathematic 2 (compulsory)
- Modern approaches to teaching mathematic (compulsory)
4. semester
- Modern approaches to teaching mathematic (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Actuarial Mathematics (compulsory optional)
- Affine Geometry (compulsory optional)
- Board Games (optional)
- Computer Practicum (R) (compulsory optional)
- Didactics of Mahematics (High School) (optional)
- Difference and differential equations (compulsory optional)
- Elements of Board Games (optional)
- Foundations of Analysis in the Complex D (compulsory optional)
- Introduction to LaTeX (compulsory optional)
- Introduction to Set Theory (compulsory optional)
- Linear and general algebra in context (compulsory optional)
- Linear perspective (compulsory optional)
- Mathematical problems of non-mathemat. (optional)
- Mathematics in English (optional)
- Methodology of Teaching Chess 1 (optional)
- Methodology of Teaching Chess 2 (optional)
- Practical computational methods (compulsory optional)
- Seminar for mathematics and didactics (optional)
- Thesis from Didactics of Mathematics (optional)
Courses of Občanská výchova branch
1. semester
- Didactics for Civics 1 (compulsory)
- Politics, Religion and Society in Global (compulsory)
- Selected Issues from Humanities 1 (compulsory)
2. semester
- Didactic skills for Civics 1 (compulsory)
- Didactics for Civics 1 (compulsory)
- Selected Issues from Humanities 2 (compulsory)
3. semester
- Citizenship Education (compulsory)
- Czech Republic and EU (compulsory)
- Didactic skills for Civics 2 (compulsory)
4. semester
- Czechoslovakian and Czech after 1989 (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Expert discourse on civics (compulsory)
Courses of Přírodopis branch
1. semester
- Global, regional and local themes (compulsory)
- Motivational biological experiments (compulsory)
2. semester
- Didactics of biology in the field (compulsory)
- Ecology (compulsory optional)
- Evolutionary biology (compulsory)
3. semester
- Biogeography (compulsory optional)
- Selected chapters from genetics (compulsory)
4. semester
- Hydrobiology (compulsory optional)
- Relations among natural sciences (compulsory)
- Selected chapters from parasitology (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Environmental education in school (compulsory optional)
- Expert discourse on biology (compulsory)
Courses of Společný základ branch
1. semester
- Continuous subject practice 1 (compulsory)
- Education for school practise (compulsory)
- Educational psychology 1 (compulsory)
- General didactics 2 (compulsory)
2. semester
- Continuous subject practice 1 (compulsory)
- Educational psychology 2 (compulsory)
- School education (compulsory)
3. semester
- Block teaching practice (compulsory)
- Methodology of pedagogical research (compulsory)
- School management and law (compulsory)
4. semester
- Inclusive Education (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Alternative educational concepts (compulsory optional)
- Applications of Mathematics in Economics (optional)
- Behavioral disorders of pupils (compulsory optional)
- Bicycle touring course (optional)
- Board Games (optional)
- Canoe course (optional)
- Condition swimming (optional)
- Course of mountain hiking (optional)
- Course stay in the countryside (compulsory optional)
- Critical thinking (compulsory optional)
- Cryptography and Information Security (optional)
- Czech Republic Geographical Aspects (optional)
- Development Language (optional)
- Didactic workshop 1 (compulsory optional)
- Digital technologies in education (compulsory optional)
- Diploma thesis (compulsory)
- Documentary in Education (optional)
- Education for European thinking (compulsory optional)
- Education in the ghetto Terezín (compulsory optional)
- Education of democratic human (compulsory optional)
- Elements of Board Games (optional)
- English for Specific Purposes (compulsory optional)
- Environmental Education (compulsory optional)
- Environmental Studies & Global Problems (optional)
- Erziehung und Bildung im Ghetto Theres. (optional)
- Esthetics (optional)
- Evaluation in current school (compulsory optional)
- Fitness program (optional)
- Floorball (optional)
- Functions of Complex Variable (optional)
- German for Professional Purposes (compulsory optional)
- Gifted Pupil in Contemp. School (compulsory optional)
- Graphical User Interface (optional)
- Healthy living style and first aid (compulsory)
- Historical Heritage of our Region (optional)
- History of Culture (optional)
- History of Czech people and Liberec (optional)
- History of Chemistry (optional)
- History of Christianity (optional)
- Challenges of Civilisation of 21th Centu (optional)
- Chemical informatics (optional)
- Informatics In Musical Composition (optional)
- Information and Crisis Management (optional)
- Introdacion of Historical Poietic (optional)
- Introduction in contemporary hermeneutic (optional)
- Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (optional)
- Introduction to Ecology (optional)
- Introduction to psychology for Erasmus (optional)
- Introduction to Set Theory (optional)
- Journalism (optional)
- Language games developing (optional)
- Less known sport games (optional)
- Management of Working Groups (optional)
- Mathematics in English (optional)
- Media education (compulsory optional)
- Methodology of Teaching Chess 1 (optional)
- Methodology of Teaching Chess 2 (optional)
- Modern movement forms (optional)
- Multicultural education (compulsory optional)
- Multimedia in schools projects (optional)
- Mythology, philosophy, science (optional)
- Noetics (optional)
- Oral examination – Pedagogy-Psychology (compulsory)
- Pedagogical diagnostics (compulsory optional)
- People and chemistry (optional)
- Personal and social education (compulsory optional)
- Personal growth (optional)
- Personal growth for Erasmus (optional)
- Phil.Press.of the Probl. “Man and Natur” (optional)
- Philosophy of Humanities (optional)
- Poetics of Modern Times (optional)
- Practical German for historians I. (optional)
- Practical German for historians II. (optional)
- Preventing bullying at school (compulsory optional)
- Project Teaching (compulsory optional)
- Psychology of communication for Erasmus (optional)
- Rhetoric (optional)
- Selected chapters from contemporary hist (optional)
- Selected chapters from didactics (optional)
- Selected chapters from general modern (optional)
- Selected chapters from general modern hi (optional)
- Selected chapters from modern Czech hist (optional)
- Selected chapters from the history (optional)
- Selected chapters from the history of th (optional)
- Selected Issues of Sociology (optional)
- Seminar for mathematics and didactics (optional)
- Sexual education (compulsory optional)
- School and School Culture (compulsory optional)
- Ski mountaineering course (optional)
- Snowboarding course (optional)
- Sociální dovednosti učitele (compulsory optional)
- Sociocultural diversity (compulsory optional)
- Sociology of Education (optional)
- Sport gymnastics 2 (optional)
- Sport gymnastics I (optional)
- Sport massage (optional)
- The historical excursion 1 (optional)
- The historical excursion 2 (optional)
- The historical excursion 3 (optional)
- Theory of Interpretation (optional)
- Theory of Subjectivity (optional)
- Therapy of the soul as philosophical voc (optional)
- Traffic Education (compulsory optional)
- Waldorf pedagogy (compulsory optional)
- Water sports course (optional)
Courses of Tělesná výchova branch
1. semester
- Biomechanics (compulsory)
- Didactics of physical education 2 (compulsory)
- Swimming 3 (compulsory)
2. semester
- Methodology of athletics (compulsory)
- Methodology of gymnastics (compulsory)
3. semester
- Health physical education1 (compulsory)
- Methodology of sport games (compulsory)
- Methodology of swimming (compulsory)
- Movement and Health (compulsory)
4. semester
- Biomedical aspects of physical education (compulsory)
- Health physical education 2 (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Expert discourse on physical education (compulsory)
- Less known sport games (compulsory optional)
- Martial arts (compulsory optional)
- Modern movement forms (compulsory optional)
- School skiing course (compulsory optional)
- School snowboarding course (compulsory optional)
Courses of Zeměpis branch
1. semester
- Management of geography teaching (compulsory)
2. semester
- Geography curriculum (compulsory)
- Regional geography of Czechia – edu (compulsory)
3. semester
- Geographical exercises and projects (compulsory)
- Global, regional and local themes (compulsory)
4. semester
- Cartographic and geoinformatic education (compulsory)
Courses without specified study plan
- Expert Discourse on Geography (compulsory)
- Geographical Fieldwork (compulsory optional)
- HG and PhG in Educaton (compulsory optional)
- Chapters from the practice of didactics (compulsory optional)
- Innovation in geographic education (compulsory optional)
- Interdisciplinary relation in sciences (compulsory optional)
- Regional geography of world macroregions (compulsory optional)
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Contact: Urbánek Petr, doc. PaedDr. Dr., petr.urbanek@tul.cz